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Coffee sleeves with the slogan “ Redefining Healthcare Downtown” are found at Sip coffee shop at East Houston and St. Mary's streets, and vertical banners advertising the campus are prominently placed on lampposts throughout downtown.

The Green Campus is not a hospital; it strictly offers outpatient services. The 269,000-square-foot building is part of the University Health System's $899 million capital program.

The system hopes to tap into the 77,000 residents (by its calculations) who live within a 5-mile radius of the building, which is on the northwestern outskirts of downtown. By its estimation, there also are more than 8,000 businesses operating within 5 miles, too.

“So many of us work so many hours during the day,” Leni Kirkman, spokesperson for University Health System, said, “to be able to do routine screenings or see the doctor close to work would be a real benefit. That's why we looked at the businesses as well as the residents.”

They're not the only ones.

The Baptist Medical Center at 111 Dallas St. has boosted its services, most recently offering urological, gynecological and abdominal surgeries using robots. In two years, emergency room visits have grown by more than 30 percent.

It also rests on the outskirts of the River North district, the northern area of downtown that has seen an apartment boom in recent years.

“We have more than enough capacity to manage the health care needs for the center city as well as the periphery around the urban core,” said David Goldberg, president of the Baptist Medical Center.

Over at the Nix Medical Center at 414 Navarro St., construction is under way for a new urgent care center on the ground floor of the historic building just above the River Walk.

“We wanted to offer that service through the Nix system,” Nix spokeswoman Rebecca Martinez said. “We are trying to provide as many services under the Nix.”

Of course, there is the $135 million renovation of Christus' Children's Hospital of San Antonio, but that system views its place on the map through a wider scope.

“Since we are also a regional institution, we get patients from surrounding cities,” said Pat Carrier, president of the Christus Santa Rosa Health System. “It is also very accessible from all the major highways that converge in the downtown area.”

As downtown's population continues to grow, look for health care providers to continue to adjust accordingly.

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